Citation :
« Launched with incredible fanfare with a national broadcast on the CBC, 3 May 1967, The Things I Cannot Change [...] has to go down in Canadian film history as one of the most controversial films ever released by the National Film Board (NFB), one that continues to enrage critics and fellow documentary practitioners up to the present moment. »
-- Brenda Longfellow

Source :
LONGFELLOW, Brenda. « The Things I Cannot Change: A Revisionary Reading » , dans Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada, sous la direction de Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh et Ezra Winton, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. [en anglais] (p. 149)